Howling:What IS the Nightmare Child?

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Because the Nightmare Child was mentioned yet again in The End of Time, it raises the question: what is it? But this time the Doctor appeared a bit more... frightenved when mentioning it. He spoke of it as if it was one of the biggest, baddest, mnost evil things out there. Even its name really creeps me out, sounds pretty weird/creepy/sinister, in my opinion.

By what it is, I mean by what form is it? Is it an entity, a monster, something else? The Doctor had always described it as something not nice at all. But the name is damn creepy. Delton Menace 17:12, January 2, 2010 (UTC)

I think it's Paris Hilton when she was younger. The evil dude. 17:29, January 2, 2010 (UTC)

While that's very possible, I think that it's some sort of entity, think Unicron from Transformers, it doesn't strike me as being small enough to be a monster.Excalibur-117 17:40, January 2, 2010 (UTC)

I vaguely remember one of the writers (Paul Cornell? maybe even Moffat?) speculating that when the Eternals and the Guardians left the universe at the start of the LGTW, all kinds of spooky things that had been hiding from them came out of the woodwork. But I did a search and can't find any references to this idea anywhere, so I could be completely wrong.

I'm just surprised that nobody has yet speculated that it's the Midnight entity. :) --99.157.75.211 02:13, January 3, 2010 (UTC)

Because the Midnight entity is incorperal, and the Nightmare Child is described as having been something corperal: they knew it was male, they mentioned jaws, they could see it. They mentioned "his emtpire." It sounds like the Nightmare Child may have been a huge, demonic monster, or something.

Midnight was an incorperal entity, but similarly frightening. Except, the freaking thing is, how on Earth did it knock when it didn't have a physical form? That really freaks me out when I think about it. Weird... Delton Menace 02:39, January 3, 2010 (UTC)

The Nightmare Child is one of those Time War things that can't be shown or described, because it's too complicated for the human mind to grasp. Hope that clears things up! Jim393 19:57, January 8, 2010 (UTC)

I recon it is a giant child that Davros flew into. --Catkind121 21:47, January 8, 2010 (UTC)

Wait a sec, can anyone tell me if this was mentioned anywhere apart from in The End of Time? 'Cos I cannae remember it being mentioned previously! Feumas 23:12, February 16, 2010 (UTC)

The series 4 finale. The Doctor remarks that's where Davros died, before Caan changed the future. N3onkn1ght 00:56, February 17, 2010 (UTC)

Ah, yes, I am going through all the episodes in order, haven't got there yet. Thanks! Feumas 11:08, February 17, 2010 (UTC)

I actully think the nightmare child is a demon, like monster. That is generated from child time lords fear. Or something like that and was used by the Time Lords as a weapon agianst the Daleks. Hence thats why Davros flew into it. But it would be good to see it in the new series. --Catkind121 12:03, February 17, 2010 (UTC)

Maybe, like the tardis, its a living ship. Nig enough to swallow a dalek ship (mothership) but also something living. Saxon 3 20:54, February 20, 2010 (UTC)

I think it could be a giant star, or black hole, or some other spacial anomoly. That would make sense as Davros' ship was swallowed by the nightmare child and that could mean it crashed into the star or sucked into a black hole. Do you get what I mean :P ? Matta jr 21:04, February 20, 2010 (UTC)

I think that it is meant to be something beyond the realms of post-childhood imagination, so you are therefore all wrong. Russel has said so about the events of the Time War, it is beyond visualisation, otherwise there is no mystery to it. So keep imagining, but as yet you haven't quite got there!